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I would recommend The Head & the Heart, Old Crow Medicine Show, Langhorne Slim, Darling, Tallest Man on Earth, Deer Tick, the Low Anthem, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Devil Makes Three, Lucero & Drive-by Truckers.

Thanks for the kind words!

We're currently working on completing an album. If you want a little bit more here's another mostly finished track (and there are a few unfinished tracks in the set also) ~

https://soundcloud.com/jacob-clarke/a-penny-placed-on-certainty?in=jacob-clarke/sets/the-forty-thieves

Would love to see a proper citation for that, and not one from a self-published "psychical researcher" whose most lauded qualification is "council membership of the Ghost Club" [link], much less one who suspects a link between English folksong and pre-Christian paganism, an idea widely discredited by academics.

I can find a lot of vague assertions online that the song is traditional (some of which tie it to Cecil Sharp's scholarly activity; this is nonsensical, as neither the poetry nor tune are anything he would have been cared to collect, much less publish) from folks clearly not in the know. Allan Brown's Inside the Wicker Man, which appears to be at least slightly reputable on the subject of the film (and is probably the source for Melvin's claim up-thread), writes that Giovanni "manufactured" the song [link] from an older piece, but is again short on details. From my own expertise, I can state that the tune is modern (turn-of-the-century music hall at earliest), and so is the poetry. I can't find a trace of it in the Ralph Vaughn Williams online collection, or in the Santa Barbara English Broadside Ballad Archive, or in the Bodleian's digital broadside collection, or in the Jack Horntip collection of bawdy songs or in any of the older texts it hosts. If it's truly a "reworking" of an eighteenth century song, it's mutilated past recognition.

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since half a year I use an android app called gitarrensongs (guitarsongs) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.subprogram.guitarsongs.vint&gl=DE

They have lots of songs available and you can make yourself favourites and "playlists".

The sheets start to scroll after a countdown, very useful,

https://books.google.com/books?id=yUTTs0HIJTUC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=landlord%27s+daughter+folk+song&source=bl&ots=WG0Fi2_SJ3&sig=fsX5_UCt5-aY3ljL7ricZuGNlik&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6gojVaPcHYqwsAXcuYDgCQ&ved=0CCQQ6AE...

Oh man they're all good.

This studio cd has a bunch of my favorites on it. http://www.allmusic.com/album/john-prine-mw0000654683

This one is live so you get to hear him tell stories which he is really good at. He plays his biggest songs live so they are all really good Prine songs. 19 cuts on this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Prine_Live

Hey r/folk,

This is the second in a series of three live video performances I am doing for my folk project Holyroot. The first, Wavebreaker, can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/46258754

Thanks for your time : )

Child's (multivolume) ballad book, and Bronson's accompanying book of music ... is that the kind of thing you mean?

In terms of newer books, Steve Roud just published a history of Folk Song in England, and his collection of English Folk Songs with Julia Bishop has more in it than just Child ballads ...

A chunk of my research is based on it, actually. Nicholas Jennings book called "Before The Gold Rush" that offers a more popular history perspective on Yorkville and the wider Canadian folk and rock scene in the 60s and 70s. I recommend that one as well. https://www.amazon.ca/Before-Gold-Rush-Nicholas-Jennings/dp/014026356X

Oh yes. She has had a CRAZY life. I don't really have any specific stories because my dad said I had to read her book first before I asked her a million questions that would be explained there. I just bought it at the Woody Guthrie Music Festival, here's the amazon link if you're interested! It's a mix of her autobiography and her memories with Woody and what not. Super interesting!!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0184CBHHK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#navbar

There is a really nice acoustic version of this song, but I can't remember the artist for the life of me.

Alsom check out this album :)